Lawsuits challenge anonymous speech online. The Internet will be
increasingly constrained by lawyers for the wealthy. It was just the
other evening that I asked a friend Can I still go to heaven if I kill a
lawyer? and got the answer I think it helps.

Fake Fans, Fake Buzz, Real Bucks offers a look at how movie studios are putting
up fan sites to draw attention to upcoming movies. Sleazy and perhaps
unethical. Would I do it if someone paid? Now there's a trickier question to answer.

Attention, Fat Corporate Bastards!We know about your plans for the Internet.
Although you won't listen, we would like to point out how wrong you are now,
so we can point out gleefully how right we were later.

Congress hasn't the authority to dictate the blood-alcohol level for a DWI. Or to
blackmail states by threatening to withhold highway dollars. Of course since the
feds have already taken our money, they don't see a problem with
putting conditions on its distribution. It's ours. We stole it fair and square.

The Internet Archive is building an Internet Library. You have to submit
a proposal to use the archive, but once you do, you have access to 43 terabytes
of web pages, Usenet postings, and Arpanet documentation.

Gerald's personal HTTP archive lets you archive all the pages you've surfed.
I keep meaning to install it, but haven't gotten around to setting up a machine
to serve as a proxy server yet.

The CSS Anarchist's Cookbook makes the strongest argument I've seen for
writing standards-compliant web pages. That, and I really like the FONT trick.
After a bit of rummaging around, I got to A Study of Regular Polygons,
which seems to use CSS to draw the polygons. Now that's cool.

The Misanthropic Bitch asks us to Throw away the trash. When everyone
dislikes you and picks on you, maybe the problem isn't other people. And shooting
up a school to get revenge might not be the best solution to the problem.

And the April 2001 issue of Scientific American has an article about violence
and egotism / self-confidence called Violent Pride, but that's not
one of the articles you can get online.

The LED Museum, and most especially its The Punishment Zone have lots of
useful information on LED-based flashlights. Nothing specific to a bike headlight,
but I've decided that's because nobody is making such a beast.

The PAL OneStar LED Flashlights sounded tempting enough that I bought one. It's
useful as a being seen, but not for actual seeing on a bike. The useful
range seems to be about 7 metres. The PAL OneStar review says it's pretty
good. Huh. It's also very purplish-blue. I wonder if maybe I got a bad one.

The CC Expedition review led me to order a
CC Expedition - 7 White LED Flashlight. If it's as bright as they say (which I'm
starting to doubt, but we'll see), I can almost certainly adapt the head (bulb)
from it to make a good driving light. And if you don't want the whole body, you
can get just the bulb for about $35.

On a website note, I've started making the first steps toward keeping the server
from falling over so often (and if you haven't noticed, it's because I've been
manually rebooting it a lot). Unfortunately, this is going to mean
not only new software to serve the pages (goodbye Manila), but
also a new OS, new hardware, and lots of other hassles. The content may
be thinner during the transition, and I just wanted to warn you now.

I'm also searching for a ready-built LED-based bicycle headlight. I'm looking for
something that will actually illumate dark roads, as opposed to just letting me
be seen. It seems to be nearly an impossible request to fill. Anyone out there
have any suggestions? There's a lot of raw parts listed on the LEDs with Punch!
and Bicycle Lighting - LED Lights pages, but neither has pointed me to just what
I'm looking for.

Wanna buy some guns? The ROSOBORONEXPORT Web Site will sell them to you...
if you're a small country. Heck you can even get a sub or Ka-50 Combat Helicopter.
Just pony up the hard currency. Oh, and turn off JavaScript before trying to get
to the site, since they enforce their crappy frames using JavaScript. Bleh.

It's the law in Kennesaw - every head of household is required to own at
least one firearm with ammuntion in Kennesaw, GA. And strangely enough,
the crime rate dropped by 89% following the law's passage, compared to
10% for the rest of the state.